Here is an old Highwall Browning in .22-250. Amazing in every detail. They don’t make rifles like this anymore. Just look at the wood on this thing! Stunning. The photos do not do it justice.
3 thoughts on “A very fine rifle”
WOW !!
That grain is so figured it looks fake. Though, of course, it isn’t.
You’re right, they don’t make them like that anymore.
I had a chance to get one in 6mm Remington at a good price – but passed. Now I think I could be sitting there in the late Summer plinking ‘Chucks in style if I had…
Burl walnut sure is pretty wood. I like curly maple myself, such as what is used on front stuffers. My Auto Ordnance M1 Carbine paratrooper model has a nice burl walnut pistol group straight from the factory. I was going to put the coiled snake on the stock as Eastwood did in his spaghetti westerns, but didn’t have the heart to do so once I saw that stock…
WOW !!
That grain is so figured it looks fake. Though, of course, it isn’t.
You’re right, they don’t make them like that anymore.
I had a chance to get one in 6mm Remington at a good price – but passed. Now I think I could be sitting there in the late Summer plinking ‘Chucks in style if I had…
Burl walnut sure is pretty wood. I like curly maple myself, such as what is used on front stuffers. My Auto Ordnance M1 Carbine paratrooper model has a nice burl walnut pistol group straight from the factory. I was going to put the coiled snake on the stock as Eastwood did in his spaghetti westerns, but didn’t have the heart to do so once I saw that stock…